[TriLUG] VNC/SSH Tunneling speed

[David Black]

Please let me second a recommendation for NX, e.g. FreeNX.

Much better remote display performance than straight X over compressed(?) SSH as you're doing now, as well as TightVNC.  The server-side install is almost turnkey, it leverages the existing SSH server for transport, and there are client installer packages available for at least Windows and Linux.

Dave

----- "Brian Cottingham" <spiffytech at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you're having a bandwidth/latency problem with VNC take a look at
> NX[1].
> Rather than just passing screenshots over the network it passes actual
> X11
> events back and forth, which have a much lower overhead than bitmaps.
> I've
> found it quite usable over the Internet, and it has all the features
> you
> could need: connections run over SSH, display resizing, connecting to
> an
> existing X session, and settings for faster/slower networks.
> 
> -Brian
> 
> [1] http://www.nomachine.com/download.php
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >  I have a ssh tunnel to my server @home. I'm on a cable modem. I'm
> > wondering if there is a way to speed up the response time?  I've
> dropped my
> > color depth to 16. I'd like to be able to keep a decent colordepth.
> >
> >
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